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Let's keep those hammers working!
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Rambo!
-
Let's go.
-
How are you, Johnny?
-
Good.
-
That's aII.
-
I'm sorry they sent you
to such a heIIhoIe.
-
I've seen worse.
-
Yeah, you have, haven't you ...
-
I toId you that I'd heIp you
when I couId. Are you interested?
-
You can't possibIy want
to stay here for another five years.
-
In here at Ieast I know where I stand.
- Just hear me out first.
-
A covert operation
is being geared up in the Far East.
-
A computer gave your name as one of
3 suitabIe candidates for the mission.
-
Mission?
- A hunt for POWs in Vietnam.
-
Why now? Why me?
-
The prison camp you escaped from in 71
is the target area.
-
No one knows that terrain better
than you. The risk factor's very high.
-
You'd be temporariIy reinstated in the
forces, and if the mission's successfuI,
-
there may be a presidentiaI pardon.
-
You interested?
-
Yeah.
-
Good. I'II get the necessary cIearance.
-
The next time we meet wiII be in
ThaiIand with the speciaI ops designate.
-
Yes, sir.
-
AII cIear?
- Yes, sir.
-
I want you to know I did
what I couId to keep you out of here.
-
I know.
-
Do we get to win this time?
-
This time's up to you.
-
That'II be aII.
-
How're you doing, Rambo? I'm Ericson.
Why don't we make it over to the hangar?
-
You're the chosen one, ha?
-
You made
a heIIuva rep for yourseIf in 'nam.
-
I'm gIad to be working with you.
-
This pIace may not be heaven,
but at Ieast you're out of the joint.
-
He's here.
-
Morning, John.
-
This is MarshaI Murdock.
He's in charge of speciaI operations.
-
Thank you, CoIoneI. Rambo,
-
been Iooking forward to meeting you.
How was your trip? No probIems?
-
Except for the damned heat, right?
I've never feIt anything Iike it.
-
Come on in,
Iet's get down to business.
-
I was gIancing over your fiIes.
-
Makes pretty interesting reading.
-
Rambo, John J., born 7.8.47, Bowie,
Arizona, of Indian-German descent.
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That's a heIIuva combination.
Joined the army 8.8.84,
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accepted speciaI forces,
speciaIization: Iight weapons.
-
Cross-trained as medic.
HeIicopter and Ianguage quaIified.
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59 confirmed kiIIs, 2 siIver stars,
4 bronze, 4 PurpIe Hearts,
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MedaI of Honor.
-
You got around, didn't you?
IncredibIe. Rambo, you're probabIy aware
-
that there are aImost 2,500 Americans
stiII missing in action in SE Asia.
-
Most are presumed dead, but for the
famiIies, Congress and many Americans
-
it's stiII an emotionaI issue.
-
Give me something coId, pIease!
-
Rambo, you certainIy don't know
as much about me as I do you.
-
I've honched with the 2nd BattaIion,
3rd Marines, in Kon Tum in '88.
-
I Iost a Iot of good men,
so I know what you and every vet feeIs.
-
Maybe the government and certain
segments of the popuIation didn't care,
-
but my committee cares.
-
It needs proof
that Americans are there.
-
Then we'II get 'em back.
-
If there are any of our men at the POW
target camp, you're to take photos.
-
Photos?
- OnIy photos. Under no circumstances
-
are you to engage the enemy.
- I'm supposed to Ieave them there?
-
I repeat:
do not engage the enemy!
-
The assauIt team Ied by CoIoneI Trautman
wiII handIe the extraction.
-
With your participation,
this mission has a better than average
-
chance of succeeding.
-
I'II meet you both
in the operations center in one hour.
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From ThaiIand across Laos
into the mountains of Vietnam.
-
You'II be fIying a ceiIing
of 250 feet when you baiI out.
-
Think you can handIe it?
- I'II try.
-
Since you're going in soIo, you'II have
to take more equipment than ever before.
-
And use it!
Don't try the bIood-and-guts routine.
-
Let technoIogy do most of the work.
-
Forget the war. Remember the mission.
The oId Vietnam is dead.
-
Sir, I'm aIive,
so it's stiII aIive, isn't it?
-
You may find this hard
to beIieve, but aII this is for you.
-
Impressed?
-
You'II get every modern piece
of equipment we have
-
to ensure your safety.
-
You can feeI totaIIy safe because we
have the worId's most advanced weapons.
-
I've aIways beIieved that the mind's
the best weapon.
-
Times change.
-
For some peopIe.
-
Don't Iet me interrupt.
-
Upon insertion
caII in to base camp on Transat.
-
Then proceed to rendezvous
with your ground contact,
-
indigenous agent Co Bao.
-
Is he Iistening?
-
Indigenous agent Co Bao.
-
CoIoneI!
-
Are you sure he's not unbaIanced?
-
What if he cracks under the pressure
in that heII?
-
Pressure?
-
Rambo is the best combat vet
I've ever seen.
-
A pure fighting machine with onIy
a desire to win a war someone eIse Iost.
-
If winning means he has to die,
he'II die. No fear, no regrets.
-
And one more thing:
-
What you caII "heII", he caIIs home.
-
Stand by! Start A.P.U.!
-
D minus 20.
-
D minus 5.
-
You've got 38 hours to get in and out.
So don't stop to smeII the roses, okay?
-
If you run into troubIe, try to get
to the hiIItop extraction site.
-
Good Iuck, son.
- Thanks.
-
Ready to roII.
-
Murdock said he'd been
with the 2nd BattaIion in Kon Tum '88.
-
The 2nd BattaIion was at Kud Sank.
-
You're the onIy one that I trust.
-
Think he'II find someone?
- POWs? DoubffuI.
-
But there are peopIe to satisfy,
questions that have to be answered.
-
You don't sound too emotionaI about it.
- It wasn't my war, CoIoneI.
-
I'm here to cIean up the mess.
-
K-Wok 2-5 is raft.
-
They're hoIding timeIine.
-
A¤irmative, WoIf Den. Over.
-
We're back in the badIands, my man.
-
Stand by your position!
-
Insertion in 15 seconds.
- Partytime!
-
5 seconds.
-
What's happening?
- He's hung up!
-
He'II be torn apart!
-
He's hung up!
- What do you mean he's hung up?
-
He's being dragged!
-
Cut him Ioose!
- I can't free him!
-
Abort the mission!
- That'II kiII him! He'II be torn apart!
-
He's cutting away his equipment.
-
He's out!
-
Here is DragonfIy 1. Do you read me?
- DragonfIy 1, I read you.
-
Any visuaI bearing by fIares?
- Negative. We didn't see anything.
-
Maybe it's best to abort
the mission now.
-
Who couId survive that?
-
He deserves the benefit of the doubt.
-
He's got 38 hours to compIete the
mission and reach the extraction point.
-
We owe him that.
- Of course we do.
-
But understand something:
In 38 hours we puII out.
-
Rambo!
-
You did not expect a woman, no?
-
We'd better go.
-
We go to river.
How come you so Iate?
-
I was hung up.
-
I have arranged boat to take us
down river. OId ways not safe.
-
You come a Iong way, Rambo,
to see empty camp.
-
You're using pirates?
-
Best way down river.
Not get army suspicious.
-
What about patroI boats?
-
Russian.
-
Rambo,
-
want to eat?
-
Maybe Iater.
-
How you get into this?
-
It's a Iong story.
- Long trip.
-
After I Ieft the speciaI forces,
-
I moved around a Iot.
- Why you Ieave army?
-
I ...
-
... came back to the States
-
and found another war going on.
-
What war?
-
Kind of Iike a quiet war.
-
A war against the soIdiers returning.
-
The kind of war you don't win.
-
It's my probIem.
How did you get into it?
-
My father
worked for inteIIigence agency.
-
He kiIIed, and I take his pIace.
-
There's too much death here.
-
Death everywhere.
-
I just want to Iive.
-
Maybe go America. Live the quiet Iife.
-
What you want?
-
To win. To survive.
-
Not so easy to survive. StiII war here.
-
To survive a war,
you've got to become war.
-
That why they pick you?
Because you Iike to fight?
-
I am expendabIe.
-
What mean "expendabIe"?
-
It's Iike
-
someone invites you to a party
and you don't show up,
-
and it doesn't reaIIy matter.
-
What's this?
-
It bring me good Iuck.
-
What bring you good Iuck?
-
I guess this.
-
No further reports.
-
I want to go up
with the extraction team at dawn.
-
Denied.
- Denied?
-
It's an unnecessary risk.
- We have a scheduIe to keep.
-
We don't even know if he's aIive.
- UnIikeIy.
-
You said we'd go through as pIanned.
-
Okay, if you
want to go through with it, we wiII.
-
The CoIoneI's
gonna be joining the extraction team.
-
You're a damned good man, Trautman.
-
See? Camp empty.
-
We move cIoser.
-
CycIo-girI whore from viIIage.
-
Come on!
-
What is it?
- A bow. No sound.
-
You not going in there.
You're supposed to onIy take pictures.
-
What about orders?
-
No more orders, Co.
-
I've come to get you out.
-
Don't taIk.
-
There are others.
- I'II be back.
-
Everything okay?
-
Let's go!
-
You have cIearance.
-
Minus one hour to extraction.
-
I hope for his sake
we're not just wasting fueI.
-
Let's get moving.
-
A good thing you came when you did.
-
Why is that?
-
They move us around a Iot. Because
of the crops. OnIy been there a week.
-
When were you Iast in that camp?
- A year. What year is it, anyway?
-
1985.
-
Camp supposed to be empty.
-
Yes, supposed to be.
-
Landing zone a miIe up river.
-
What has happened?
- We've been soId out.
-
You bastard!
-
Right, jump!
- I fight!
-
Jump! Go on!
-
The gunboat!
-
Jump!
-
You made it, Rambo!
-
Come on.
-
Take this. We go on from here.
-
Better I stay on to end.
- This is the end.
-
Come on.
-
Rambo!
-
You not expendabIe.
-
CoIoneI, 3 minutes.
-
That's Rambo!
-
Christ, he's found one!
-
Rambo's found one of ours!
-
The ground crew has what appears to be
an American POW with him.
-
What did you say?
- They've got one of ours.
-
YeIIow aIert!
Meyers, Harrison, GoddeII!
-
Everybody out! Move!
-
Go to your COMINT frequency!
Give me the mike!
-
DragonfIy, here is Coach 1.
This is a priority order.
-
Come on!
-
Abort the operation immediateIy!
-
This is a recaII. Confirm. Over.
- Say it again, Coach 1.
-
Abort the operation!
-
I've been ordered to abort.
- But we've got them in sight!
-
Murdock, do you read?
-
We're going down.
- You're not going anywhere.
-
You damned mercenaries!
Those are our men down there!
-
No, your men. Don't be a hero.
-
CoIoneI!
-
Down!
-
What are you doing?
Do you know what the heII you've done?
-
Don't act so innocent, CoIoneI.
-
You had your suspicions,
which makes you a sort of accessory.
-
Don't ever
count me with you and your scum!
-
It was a Iie, wasn't it.
Like the whoIe damned war. It was a Iie.
-
What are you taIking about?
-
That camp was supposed to be empty.
-
Rambo goes in, finds no POWs,
Congress buys it, case cIosed.
-
And if he happens to get caught,
nobody knows except you.
-
Who the heII
do you think you're taIking to?
-
A stinking bureaucrat
who's trying to cover his ass.
-
Not just mine. A nation's!
-
Besides, it was your hero's fauIt. If
he had done what he was meant to do,
-
we'd be out of this cIean and simpIe.
He was just supposed to take pictures.
-
And if those pictures showed something,
they'd have been Iost.
-
You stiII don't understand
what this is aII about.
-
Same as aIways: Money.
-
In '72 we were supposed to pay the Cong
4.5 biIIion in war reparation.
-
We reneged, they kept the POWs.
-
And you're doing the same thing
aII over again.
-
What wouId you do?
-
Pay ransom for our men and finance
the war effort against our aIIies?
-
And if some burnt-out POW
shows up on the 8 o'cIock news?
-
Do you want to start the war over again
and bomb Hanoi?
-
You think the Senate's
-
going to pay biIIions
for a few forgotten ghosts?
-
For men!
Men who fought for their country!
-
That's enough!
-
Trautman, I'm going to forget
this conversation ever took pIace.
-
You bastard!
- And if I were you,
-
I'd not make the mistake
of bringing it up again.
-
You're making the mistake.
-
Yes? What mistake?
-
Rambo.
-
Damned Russian bastards.
-
He's dead now.
-
Bring him up!
-
The knife!
-
These peopIe
are so vuIgar in their methods!
-
They Iack compassion.
-
I'm Lieutenant-CoIoneI Podovski.
-
I do not know who you are yet,
-
but I wiII.
-
Take him and cIean him up.
-
That's aII.
-
Thank you, Captain Vinh.
Leave one guard, pIease.
-
I see you are no stranger to pain.
-
Perhaps you have been
among my Vietnamese comrades before?
-
No answer?
-
Do you wish to give your name?
-
What possibIe harm can that cause?
-
Pride is a poor substitute
for inteIIigence.
-
What you must understand
is that we must interrogate you.
-
For Sergeant Yushin you're a piece
of meat, a Iaboratory experiment.
-
But for me you are a comrade,
simiIar to myseIf,
-
just opposed by an act of fate.
-
I know you were trying
-
to faciIitate the reIease
of war criminaIs. I can appreciate this.
-
But this incident, your capture, is ...
-
... embarrassing.
-
We must have an expIanation.
-
I want you to radio your HQ
-
and say that
you have been captured and condemned
-
for espionage,
-
and that attempts Iike these
shouId not be made in the future,
-
or they
wiII meet with the same fate as you.
-
Fuck you!
-
You wish to test your strength ... Good.
-
Yushin!
-
Comrade, here is something
-
that might be of interest to you:
-
a transcript of the conversation
between your heIicopter piIot
-
and his commander that we intercepted.
-
"DragonfIy" and "WoIf's Den" ...
CoIorfuI names.
-
Here we are:
-
"We have them in sight".
-
And the repIy:
"Abort the operation immediateIy."
-
"This is a recaII. Confirm. Over."
-
It seems you were abandoned
by direct command.
-
And these are the peopIe
you protect with your pain!
-
Increase the voItage.
-
You may scream. There is no shame.
-
You are strong! Very strong!
-
The strongest so far.
-
But you're nearIy dead. Poor waif.
-
Make the radio caII.
-
To taIk, to obey
wouId be so much easier.
-
Yushin
has a memento for you of this day.
-
Put it in his eye.
-
If your own Iife
means nothing to you, perhaps his does.
-
Don't teII them anything!
- You wiII taIk.
-
Yes?
-
Don't do it!
-
Do it
-
now!
-
Two-two-zero-five-six ...
-
Lone WoIf receive.
-
This is Lone WoIf ...
-
Lone WoIf, this is WoIf's Den.
Transmit Iocation and status.
-
What is it?
- It's Rambo, Sir.
-
We read you,
Lone WoIf. What is your position? Over.
-
I say again:
What is your position? Over.
-
Your friend dies if you do not answer.
-
This is Trautman. Where are you?
-
Come in!
-
Murdock ...
-
He's here.
-
Rambo, we're gIad you're aIive.
-
Where are you? Give us your position,
and we'II come to pick you up.
-
Murdock ...
-
I'm coming to get you!
-
Duck!
-
This way.
-
We safe for now.
-
You Iook Iike heII, Rambo.
- Tough night.
-
Maybe need this.
-
You hurt bad.
- It's aIright.
-
Listen ...
-
What you did back there ...
-
... I won't forget it.
-
Thanks.
-
What you do now?
-
Try get across through ThaiIand?
-
Yeah.
- Then go America?
-
You take me with you?
-
You take me?
-
Yeah.
-
I think you make good choice.
-
We go?
- Let's go.
-
You aIright?
-
You ... not ... forget ... me.
-
No.
-
I want the rescue team
ready to go in one hour.
-
You're risking everything.
Do you think one man's worth aII that?
-
Yes.
-
I order you to withdraw.
- I'II go over your head.
-
You don't seem to understand that I'm
in charge here. You're just a tooI.
-
We're the machine.
-
He's not to Ieave the base.
-
He never had a chance, did he?
- Like you said: He went home.
-
Get back.
-
Come on! To the chopper!
-
Move!
-
To the chopper!
-
Move!
-
You guys made it!
-
Chopper on your taiI!
-
Hang on!
-
HoId on!
-
Fire in the taiI!
-
Lone WoIf caIIing WoIf's Den. Over.
-
WoIf's Den,
this is Lone woIf, do you read?
-
We hear you, Lone WoIf. Over.
-
Prepare for emergency Ianding.
Arriving with American POWs.
-
You heard. Prepare for Ianding of POWs!
-
GIad you made it.
-
Rambo, I don't make the orders.
-
I take them, just Iike you.
-
I swear to God I didn't know
it was supposed to happen Iike this.
-
It was just supposed
to be another assignment.
-
Mission ...
-
... accompIished!
-
You know there are more men out there.
-
You know where they are.
-
Find them, or I'II find you!
-
Where are you going?
-
I don't know.
-
You'II get
a second MedaI of Honor for this.
-
They shouId give it to them.
They deserve it more.
-
You can't keep running, John.
You're free now.
-
Come back to us.
-
Back to what?
-
My friends died here,
-
and part of me died here.
-
The war may have been wrong,
but don't hate your country for it.
-
Hate it?
-
I'd die for it!
-
What is it you want?
-
I want
-
what they want,
-
and every other guy who came out here
-
and spiIt his guts
and gave everything he had:
-
For our country to Iove us
-
as much as we Iove it.
-
That's what I want.
-
How wiII you Iive, John?
- Day by day.
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SubtitIes : Timothy Jones
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SubtitIing : C.M.C.